The conference itself is not online, but will be at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Science, Technology and Public Policy January 26.  The event, Today’s Online Privacy Challenges: Innovation and Liberty, is a half-day seminar focused on online privacy policies for private industry and the government.  If the Obama Administration’s emphasis on openness and online government becomes a reality, it will add to growing concerns over privacy of online information that Facebook, MySpace and other social networking technologies have forced people to deal with.  Minnesota established online privacy regulations in 2002, and it would be interesting to see how effective they have been in protecting privacy.  Registration for the conference is not yet open, but should be soon.